Anon, that's heavy. I teethed on Faulkner, lost my virginity to Pynchon... but Marquez, That Mraquez, took 3 years straight up The 1st Time! I have to have Borges, to make it between fixes ahem... right now I'm lost in Funes The Memorious, because we are forced now to remember again, recall disaster as if to feed the Ravens who would witness murder on the high seas.There will be good horror written by our grandchildren of this one.

I heard 70 000 barrels a day, too. This is the saddest thing that has ever happened.

I am worried about the effect of the chemicla dispersants on women of childbearing age, pregnant and nursing women.

Those chemicals, we are told, bioaccumulate.

Vietnam is still coping with birth defects due to Agent Orange. CNN has a video up of the birth defects in Fallujah that many suspect are the result of chemical weapons use in that city during the siege.

How do we get them to tell us what chemicals are being used, and in what quantitites?

How do we get them to tell us what those chemicals do to people, and to the unborn?